Naruto 409

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Naruto
#409: The Senjutsu Tradition
[side text: From where I'm standing, Naruto-chan and Jiraiya-chan are both just little tadpoles!!]

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[insert text: To Mount Myouboku...!!]
Fukasaku: Well, we'll be off now. // Naruto-chan, say your goodbyes.
Naruto: I'll be back before you know it. // Shikamaru, you sort out that code, yeah?
Shikamaru: Don't you worry about us.
Tsunade: We will contact you if and when the autopsy and interrogation show any results.

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Fukasaku: I'll leave a messenger frog with you. // If anything happens, you just use him.
Tsunade: Understood.
Sakura: Naruto, you work hard out there!
Naruto: Yeah! // All right! Time to get going!
Fukasaku: ......
Naruto: ...... // So, uh, which way is Mount Myouboku exactly...?

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Fukasaku: It would take a month to reach it on foot. // It is also known as the Lost Mountain... / Unless you know the secret route, you will never find your way there.
Naruto: ...It's that hard just to get there...?
[TN: Eh, not sure about the rightmost two names on the contract, but the others are, shockingly enough, Jiraiya, Minato and Naruto.]
Fukasaku: Naruto-chan... you already have a bound contract with the toads. / As such, you need not worry.
Naruto: Ahh! // That's...!
Fukasaku: Now then, I'll be taking this kid for a while.
Tsunade: Take good care of him.

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Naruto: But what do you mean, I don't need to worry...?
Sakura: Huh?! / He disappeared?
Tsunade: It's a reverse summoning.
Sakura: Wow...
Fukasaku: You keep up the good work, too.

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Tsunade: Right. Now, we need to devote our full attention to the information that Jiraiya left for us!
Shikamaru: Yes, ma'am.
Sakura: Right.
Tsunade: (Uzumaki Naruto... the child of prophecy...)

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Konan: Everything is ready.
Pain: Our target is the Kyuubi. // Anyone who interferes, we slaughter.
Naruto: ?!

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Naruto: !! // What's this?
Gamakichi: Naruto.
Naruto: !

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Gamakichi: I'm the one who summoned you here, Naruto.
Naruto: ...Oh, I get it... // So that's what it was...
Fukasaku: First things first - a meal before you begin your training.
Naruto: ?
Mother: Now then, you just dig in! // I really pushed myself to make the best meal I could!

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Naruto: Ughhh...
Fukasaku: This is no time to be standing around retching. / We have to begin your training.
Naruto: R - Right!
Fukasaku: Now, first of all, I want you to understand... / ...that what I am about to teach you is not ninjutsu, but senjutsu.

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Naruto: Senjutsu?
Fukasaku: Indeed... / Whereas ninjutsu makes use of one's own internal energy, // senjutsu techniques make use of outside energy, from the surrounding environment.
Naruto: Outside... // What's that mean?
Fukasaku: Hmm... / I'm sure you are aware of this already, // but ninjutsu involves moulding one's internal spiritual energy and physical energy into Chakra, and making use of that. // For senjutsu, one takes that internal Chakra that one has moulded... // ...and adds in the "natural energy" that surrounds us all, moulding that into the mixture... / ...to create a new, more powerful type of Chakra. // As such, it allows all of your ninjutsu, genjutsu... / ...and even taijutsu techniques to "power up" significantly.

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Fukasaku: The internal spiritual and physical energies... / ...and the external natural energy. // Techniques and attacks which use Chakra moulded from all three of these forms of energy... / ...are known as "senjutsu".
Naruto: Mmmmmm...
Gamakichi: Basically, it's like how if you take an ice-cream made up of chocolate and vanilla flavours, and add in mint flavour as well, then it becomes even tastier.
Fukasaku: Don't complicate this even further, Gamakichi!
Naruto: Ohh! / So it's like that!
Fukasaku: ...He actually understood that analogy......
Gamakichi: Heheh... that's just what Naruto's like...
Naruto: So what exactly is this "natural energy" stuff, then?

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Fukasaku: It refers to energy that exists outside oneself... dwelling in the atmosphere and in the earth.
Naruto: The atmosphere and the earth... // Hmmm...
Gamakichi: He means the air and the ground.
Naruto: Oh, right, I get it.
Fukasaku: Oh, dear... let's not just stand around talking all day. I think it's time for a little practical demonstration. // (Over here should work...)
Gamakichi: Ahh!! That's Fukasaku-sama for you! // He's gathering up a ton of natural energy!!
Naruto: ?! // Huh? Where?
Gamakichi: Wh... Whoa...

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Naruto: He... He picked it up?!!
Fukasaku: H... How do you like that......? // This is... the power of senjutsu, using "natural energy"...

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Fukasaku: Whew!
Naruto: B... But I didn't get what you were doing at all... // It just looked like you were making seals, that was all...
Fukasaku: Well, of course... as you are now, I wouldn't expect you to be able to sense the natural energies. // *pant* // *pant* // And as such, there's no way you could actually gather them. // *pant* // *pant*
Naruto: Then how do I...?
Fukasaku: *pant* // *pant* // You must become one with nature!

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Naruto: ...... // Become... one...?
Gamakichi: Basically, he means you have to die.
Naruto: What?

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Sasuke: Are you the Hachibi Jinchuuriki?
Hachibi: No, I think you mean "Are you Hachibi-SAMA?". // You mean "Are you the Jinchuuriki-SAMA?".
Sasuke: I will capture you.
[insert text: Conflict inevitable!!!]
[bottom text: What does he mean by "die"...?! Next issue, colour pages, and "Hachibi VS Sasuke"!!]